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Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman
No one can choose who we will be paired with in qualifying. Making a previously elimination-only gameplay element legal in qualifying - one that is so critically dependent on the physical configurations of the three randomly-paired partners - almost guarantees that more of those in the Long class are going to experience pain relative to the Wides in the rankings. THAT is the key issue, in my mind. We all want to be alliance captains, right? We all wish to have some modicum of control over our elimination destiny, right?
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I can see what Travis means here.
Andy, when you say "All these changes do is alter the method that teams are ranked at the end of the qualification matches."
I read that as a "all it merely does," but long bots at IRI will need to be top 8 seed to get the alliance they want to win because teams will want a triple balance alliance for elims and more than likely may not pick a long bot.
Just like any other competition, your fair chance of being top 8 is cut down, and as we all know, top 8 is the only way to secure a spot in elims and with the teams you want.
I believe the ruling was first made to act as a handicap for teams who had built a long bot and so that they wouldn't be highly disadvantaged in qualifications, but if this is taken away, it is sort of like shooting a long bot in the foot (the wheel?) and makes it that much harder for them to control what happens to them once alliance selection rolls around. These are teams who walk into an event and think "alright so if I can seed high enough, I can probably pick an alliance to triple with in elims."
Sorry for the possibly incoherent response, I've got the flu! I just felt that Travis needed to be backed up here a bit.
+$0.02